How Sad Venice Can Be

	  		
Verse 1 
Bb 
How sad Venice can be 
     F 
When you return alone 
   Gm 
To find a memory 
                F 
In every paving stone. 
Cm 
I walk among the birds 
     F 
That fill San Marco's Square 
     C 
With echoes of her words 
                 F 
Around me in the air. 


 
Bb 
How sad Venice can be 
         G 
When the mandolins play 
  Cm 
A song she sung for me 
                F 
One unforgotten day. 
Bb 
Like images of sleep 
Eb 
The gondoliers go by 
    Cm 
But when I try to weep 
  F                 Bb 
I find my tears are dry. 



Key Change - B 

Verse 2 
B 
How sad Venice can be 
     Abm 
When mist is in your eyes 
            C#m 
And you can hardly see 
                    F# 
As pigeons fill the skies. 
  C#m 
I find the little street 
    F# 
And then the old café 
      C#m 
Where we would always meet 
                  F# 
To dream away the day. 


 
B 
How sad Venice can be 
   A                Ab 
Be-neath the silent moon 
 C#m 
That rises from the sea 
                   F# 
And silvers the la-goon. 
  B 
I hear the vespers chime 
    Abm 
And cross the Bridge of Sighs 
  C#m 
I know that it is time 
   F#               B 
To bid my last good-byes. 



Key Change - C 

SEGUE 
C 
There's nothing more to say 
  F 
I pass beneath the light 
           Dm 
And then I turn away 
     G             C 
From Venice in the night. 


OUTRO 
C 
How sad Venice can be 
     F             A 
It's too lonely to bare 
     F 
When you have lost the love 
     G              C 
That you discovered there.